Bacon simmered bamboo shoots, potato powder, scrambled eggs with wild garlic, black rice, goose mushroom, Yunhu casserole fish head, Yangxian tea feast, Zhang Gong tofu, tea fragrant bamboo chicken, sauce square meat... Have you tasted these Yixing delicacies? Yes, you may have eaten Su cuisine, eaten Cailu, eaten Sichuan cuisine, but in Yixing, authentic Yibang cuisine is your unmissable delicacy!
If you walk into the first county-level local cuisine museum in Jiangsu Province in The First County-level Local Cuisine Museum in Jiangsu Province, located in the tourism town of Yada YangxianXi mountain with the "Harvest china's Ten Thousand Miles" publicity and promotion team of the China Agricultural Film and Television Center, you will learn that the Yibang Cuisine Museum is the third local cuisine museum opened to the public in Jiangsu Province after the Huaiyang Cuisine Museum and the Subang Cuisine Museum, and you can taste authentic Yibang cuisine in the museum.
Yibang Cuisine Museum is built by Yixing Urban Construction Cultural Tourism Group to integrate multiple resources and investment, and is the first museum-level cultural restaurant in Yixing with the theme of "Gourmet Beauty And Yibang Cuisine". Every weekend, tourists come to taste the dishes of Yibang in an endless stream, even in normal times, a family of three, girlfriends, lovers, three or three pairs of diners are also endless. Inside the museum, you can not only appreciate the history and culture of Yibang cuisine, but also feel the strong Yang envy regional style. Immersed in it, people can enjoy the most authentic Yixing cuisine, while feeling the relaxed and interesting food stories, celebrities, traditional customs, enjoy the rural wild fun, old street scenes, ancient and modern beautiful utensils, while enjoying the "Yixing on the tip of the tongue", understand the "Chinese pottery capital" Yixing's broad and profound food culture.
Yixing cuisine is also called "Yibang cuisine", out of a lot of distinctive famous dishes, it is an important part of China's four major cuisines - Jiangsu cuisine Huaiyang cuisine, due to the influence of Zhejiang cuisine, Anhui cuisine, especially Suxi cuisine, so Yixing specialties are compatible with huaiyang cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Suxi cuisine and other cuisine essence. The good mountains, good water and good ingredients here have made it a suitable dish to walk between various tastes, not only the mellow history of long history, the excitement of regional culture, but also the warmth of fireworks life.
Yixing is located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, the unique natural environment of Jiangnan fish and rice town, so that Yixing catering culture has a long history, yixing catering culture passed down from generation to generation, giving birth to Chinese cooking masters, famous teachers and Yibang cuisine inheritors represented by Ye Zuren and Lu Huatang. These contemporary Yixing celebrity chefs, with top skills and rich experience in the handling of the spoon, they are committed to the research and innovative development of Yibang cuisine, and they are diligently pursuing the prosperity of China's catering industry and providing diners with satisfactory Yibang dishes, which is their original intention and mission in life.
Step into the museum and gourmet restaurant. Yibang Cuisine Museum has achieved diversified functions in displaying catering culture and carrying out catering services, and each section has its own unique category, which truly reflects cultural guidance, visual pleasing and delicious enjoyment. For example, at the food culture exhibition held in the museum, The Hundred Scenic Pictures of Jiaoqiao Old Street, Intangible Cultural Heritage Cuisine, Yixing Traditional Famous Dishes, Modern Famous Chefs List, etc., are closely related to Yixing catering culture, and the Yixing head dish, snow bud shrimp, Wang Fumao whole duck, white juice cabbage, Goose mushroom tofu, ancient roasted mackerel, Umi small fragrant meat and other real-life objects presented on the booth can be "ordered" for these delicacies.
The "Hundred Views of Jiaoqiao" in the foyer on the first floor of the Yibang Cuisine Museum is based on the Yixing Old Street in the Republic of China period, restoring the prosperous scene of Yixing County at that time, especially the old restaurants along the street, recording the glorious past of Yibang cuisine. The ancient art exhibition area is the epitome of Yixing's more than 7,000 years of pottery history, as a bearing tool for food, it is the same root as food, and the "flat waist eaves kettle" in the center of the exhibition hall is the early cooking utensils used by the ancestors of Yixing in the Neolithic Era. The "Yixing Tou Dish" displayed at the entrance of the East Gate of Yibang Cuisine is the most classic representative dish of Yibang Cuisine, and the legend is that it was pioneered by Ren Xiaoyuan, the imperial chef of Yixing in the Qing Dynasty, and has been passed down to this day and has become an indispensable hard dish at Yixing people's banquets. Also classic is the dish "Sixteen Episodes of Yibang Famous Products" in the central window of the hall, each of which has its own story.
Yixing has a number of intangible cultural heritage foods with distinctive regional characteristics. Most of these dishes are made with local ingredients, which are in line with the food culture of Yixing, and have formed many unique production techniques over the long years. Tasting intangible cultural heritage food is also a good memory of Jiangnan water towns, mountain villages and towns, which is the daily life of the ancestors of Yixing in the past generations, and is also an important part of folk culture. For example, dumplings made in the New Year are not only convenient delicacies, but also a good medicine to relieve the pain of homesickness. In 1950, Yixing specially made more than 100,000 kilograms and more than 100,000 kilograms of dried tofu were specially transported to Korea to comfort the Chinese Volunteer Army, sending a piece of deep affection to the people of the motherland; in the sixth year of tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1867), the small crisp candy produced by Yuhe Tainan Goods Store in Xushe Town, Yixing, spread its fame to the imperial palace, and the emperor sent special envoys to Yixing, and later listed it as a "tribute point"; the millennium living water wharf" Yangxiang town's shallot oil cake is also a traditional food necessary for Yixing to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.....Yixing folk cuisine, too many to list.
Yixing is adjacent to Taihu Lake, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the geographical position is superior, known as "three mountains, two waters and five fields", the wind and smoke of Taixing Lake are watered with fertile soil through the Du district, where high-quality food varieties are bred. Winter shoots, salmon, goose mushroom... These familiar special ingredients have nurtured generations of Yixing people, connected the city's living memories, built a spiritual harbor for people, and become a natural source of Yixing food culture.
Hit a bowl of sweet and sticky sugar taro in the sugar taro shop, sit at the side of the stall and drink a bowl of fresh and moist tofu flowers, and eat a bowl of hot duck dumpling noodles in the Wang Fu Mao Noodle Restaurant... These ordinary but fulfilling tastes of life recorded on the Hundred Scenic Pictures of Jiaoqiao tell the exquisite taste pursuit of Yixing people and write about the leisurely daily life of Yixing people.
Carrying the history of Yibang cuisine, in addition to the fireworks on both sides of the Jiaoqiao Bridge, there are also sixteen famous dishes of Yibang: salted meat simmered bamboo shoots, Hengshan fish head, steam pot double flavor...
There are many cooking techniques used in Yibang cuisine: stewing, stewing, raw frying... Complex skills determine the difficulty of inheritance of Yibang cuisine, represented by Ye Zuren, the modern Yibang famous chefs are committed to the research and innovation of Yibang cuisine, they support the world of Yibang cuisine with diligent ingenuity; they use cooking skills as a pen to write the legend of Yibang cuisine from generation to generation.
Tao Du Yixing has a history of more than 7300 years of pottery making, the pottery produced sells well at home and abroad, and most of them are practical utensils, these beautiful utensils carry the people's living culture, narrate the story between their utensils and diet, and are also famous in the history of the food world.
This is a living food museum, the food and history and culture in the museum are everywhere, the dining box on the second floor of the Yibang Cuisine Museum uses celadon porcelain, pottery carving, branding painting and other Yixing intangible cultural heritage projects to create decorative pictures, telling the story of "celebrities and Yixing" food, there are five stories: "the world's first dish - sad hong praise bamboo shoots roasted fish", "Eating pig's head in the New Year - Wu Guanzhong recalls his childhood", "Du Mu Deng Lin Yixing Restaurant", "Wang Fumao's signature duck seat", "The world's first incense - Su Shi praised guan lin duck". The public space outside the box also displays the special ingredients of Yibang cuisine, the event activities, and the illustrations of the life scenes related to the food culture of the people of Yixing, as well as the food theme Yixing dialect fun display wall. The entire Yibang Cuisine Museum skillfully arranges the natural, historical, humanistic and other elements of Yibang cuisine in various scenes, forming a closed loop of cultural exhibition experience of "displaying an experience - consumption - memory", so that the food culture of Yixing can be well activated and inherited, and the new vitality of the new era of Yibang cuisine is given.